Center for a Just Society
Walter’s entry on the Florida Senate race calls to mind that one of the ironies of the Democratic Party’s recent insistence on being the lapdog of the litigation lobby is that the latter has no special...
View Article$160 million for (someone else’s) beating
The family of Tranquilino Mendoza agrees that he received good care from a nursing home, until he was paired with a mentally ill roommate, who beat Mendoza with his fists and a water pitcher, the...
View Article$20 million for nursing home death
[84-year-old Loren] Richards died on March 2, 2002, at Beverly Health and Rehabilitation of Frankfort. Richards’ daughter, Wanda Delaplane, sued the home, alleging that nurses had ignored her father’s...
View Article“If something went wrong, we could be sued”
In Great Britain, a nursing home spokeswoman explains why visitors are allowed to bring in cakes and other baked goods only when they’re store-bought, not homemade. (Nanny Knows Best (U.K.), Jun....
View ArticleWilkes & McHugh sued over alleged Tenn. fee grab
Tampa-based Wilkes & McHugh, which has enjoyed much success filing suits against nursing homes in many states, “is now on the defense end of a suit that contends the firm knowingly violated...
View ArticleOfficiously to keep alive
In West Palm Beach, Fla., a jury has held a nursing home liable for resuscitating a 92-year-old Alzheimer’s patient who had signed an advance directive indicating that she did not want to be kept alive...
View ArticleCookies-for-troops menace averted
No need to worry that greeters will be foisting cookies on returning soldiers at Bangor International Airport any more: “airport officials asked the greeters to stop serving food last month because of...
View ArticleLawsuit demands drugstores hire bilingual interpreters
Immigrant advocacy groups are filing a complaint with the New York attorney general’s office naming 16 pharmacies in Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island, claiming “that federal civil rights law and state...
View ArticleMore lawyer-ad spoofs
The Damage Control comedy team has done parody ads under the titles Neglect, Nursing Home, Personal Injury, Sexual Harassment, and Sue Somebody. (h/t: Nicole Black). Tweet Tags: chasing clients,...
View ArticleJune 14 roundup
Study: Lawyers overestimate their chance of prevailing in litigation [Post, Volokh] Novell court victory might spell end to SCO Linux-infringement claims [GrokLaw, earlier] “Law firms violating...
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